“Bakrid needs a makeover. India’s poor need laptops & AC, not gift of meat”, The Print, June 5, 2025:
“The Muslim festival of Baqreed is round the corner, and once again, social media is rife with arguments in opposition to, and support of, the animal sacrifice it entails. Like every year, animal rights activists are raising concerns about the cruelty and violence Baqreed brings in its wake. The Muslim retort to this objection is that a majority of Bharatiyas consume non-vegetarian food regularly, and that animals, in any case, are being slaughtered every day.
The questions about animal sacrifice are often not related to one’s dietary preference for meat. Rather, they’re about the gory spectacle of slaughter. Animals — in many places even those whose slaughter is banned by law — are displayed in the open, paraded on roads, and butchered and disembowelled on thoroughfares.
Their offal is strewn in the streets, and their blood smears the pathways. It is, to say the least, obscene, revolting, and sickening. It is also an offence — often calculated and deliberate — against the sensitivity, civility, and decency of ordinary people……..”
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